You may have heard, if you read Instapundit, a Tennessee professor of Constitutional law who is passionate on the subject, that some police departments are infuriated when private citizens videotape their officers on their jobs. Some people who refused to stop have been arrested and charged with various things.
Well, the computer age has come to the rescue of those who fear encounters with abusive police who might lie about what they do. Not that I think that most cops would do that, but it’s been documented that some have. The OpenWatch “cop recorder” is an app for the Android smart phone that not only lets you surreptitiously capture audio and video of an encounter with a police officer, but helps you post both annoymously to the Internet.
Via, who else? Instapundit.
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